bzr with bzr+ssh noisy and output muddled.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Matthew D. Fuller writes:

 > laying it out pretty thick.  Any soi-disant "unix power-user" who
 > hasn't seen it before has been leading a very sheltered life.

Sure.  I carry a supply of brown bags around because you never know
when you're going to behold such an abomination.<wink>

Seriously, spinners basically say "you have nothing better to do than
to watch me spin" and/or "I'm buggy enough to have infloops" (ie, the
spinner *is* critical debugging information!)  Even for tasks that
inherently take a long and uncertain amount of time, I'd rather have a
way to get the process to report progress/status on request in the
(unusual) occasion where it seems like something's actually broken.

Eg, catch SIGUSR1.